Russian "combat modules" Vol. one
Unmanned combat vehicle Uran-9.
The first part of the article, published in the January issue of the monthly Troops and Equipment, examines Russian remote-controlled positions with small arms, i.e. armed with machine guns and heavy machine guns, sometimes also automatic or anti-tank. tank grenade launchers. We are currently introducing uninhabited artillery turrets, as well as other positions of this type, including ships.
Unlike universal mounts, which can be armed with both small arms and light artillery weapons (usually 20–30 mm rapid-fire cannons), there are mounts that are structurally adapted to larger caliber weapons. In the case of well-known sites created in Russia, the caliber of 30 mm is the lower limit, and the upper one is now 57 mm.
Artillery positions
Light wheeled combat vehicle "Tiger" BRSzM with a remote-controlled station produced by the 766th UPTK. In the photo during field tests, still without casings for the 2A72 gun barrel.
In 2016, the Tigr light wheeled combat vehicle BRSzM (Armored Reconnaissance and Assault Vehicle, literally armored reconnaissance and assault vehicle) was introduced. The car ASN 233115 was taken as a basis, i.е. variant "Tigers" for special forces. It was created at the initiative of the vehicle manufacturer, i.e., the Military Industrial Company (VPK), and its weapon position was taken by the enterprise 766. Production and technological equipment council (766. Permit for production and technological equipment). from Nachibino. The station is armed with a 30 mm 2A72 automatic cannon with a relatively small reserve of 50 rounds ready for immediate use, coaxial with a 7,62 mm PKTM machine gun. The lower part of the station occupies almost the entire space in the chassis bay, there are only two places left. The range of gun elevation angles is also limited, as it ranges from -10 to 45°. Observation and aiming devices, unified with those used in the Uran-9 UAV turret, make it possible to detect a target the size of a car from a distance of up to 3000 m during the day and 2000 m at night.
The same enterprise developed an armament stand for the Uran-9 combat unmanned vehicle BMRK / RROP (Combat multifunctional robotic complex - robotic combat multi-tasking system / Robot fire and firefighting system - reconnaissance and fire support robot) Uran-30 and it was also successfully tested on the Tiger- M". The 2th 72A200 cannon is also in service, but with a reserve of 52 rounds, four Ataka ATGM launchers (in the laser-guided version designed for the Ka-12 combat helicopter) and 3,7 Shmiel-M incendiary rocket launchers. The complex of optical-electronic observation and aiming devices forms a stabilized observation unit and an aiming unit coupled with the weapon carrier. The observation head can be raised on a light frame to a height of about 6000 m above the ground, but also works in the folded position. Detection of a target the size of a tank should be possible during the day from a range of at least 3000 m, at night from a range of 9 m. as well as the armament of the first Israeli weapons.
In 2018, the Kalashnikov company presented a prototype of a lightly armored stand BDUM-30 with a 30-mm automatic gun 2A42, intended mainly for unmanned vehicles. The tower weighing 1500 kg is stabilized, and its set of observation and aiming devices includes cameras: a TV with a thermal imager and a laser rangefinder. In 2020, it turned out that Kalashnikov was working on the use of artificial intelligence elements that allow unmanned combat vehicles to independently identify targets, evaluate their value, select appropriate means of combating them ... destroying the target, i.e. also about killing a person.
